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by Alice Dailey (Author)
A tour de force memoir that explores the murky boundary between truth and lies and the literary paths to renewal after world-altering loss.
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"A daughter fractured by the lies of a dying mother; a scholar drawn to the literary history of death; a mother in debt to stories that won't die: Alice Dailey's lush and haunting memoir immerses readers in the lessons and limits of knowing grief. Brilliantly experimental in form, Mother of Stories pierces the divide between storytelling and philosophy, fiction and life."--Robyn Wiegman, Duke University
"An elegant meditation on the fiction of everyday living.--William Germano, author of On Revision "A profoundly moving and creative book."--Jonathan Alexander, author of Writing and Desire: Queer Ways of Composing A tour de force memoir that explores the murky boundary between truth and lies and the literary paths to renewal after world-altering loss. In a breathtaking blend of lyrical memoir, photographs, and textual artifacts, Mother of Stories examines the complex legacy of a mother who was a gifted teacher, a passionate reader, and a pathological liar. While Alice Dailey was immersed in writing an academic study of death in Shakespeare's history plays, her mother died from toxic exposure to mold. Composed in a fugue of grief, Mother of Stories is Dailey's uncompromising account of the months before and after her mother's death. Through varied forms of episodic and visual recreation, Mother of Stories confronts what it means to inherit violent family narratives and, in their wake, to have to reconceive the borders between lived, imaginary, and literary experience. A hybrid, richly imaginative work that synthesizes past and present, counterfeit and real, Mother of Stories oscillates between the inescapable weight of history and the cathartic liberation of art and storytelling. Alice Dailey is Professor of English at Villanova University, where she specializes in late medieval and early modern drama.Author Biography
Alice Dailey is Professor of English at Villanova University, where she specializes in late medieval and early modern literature, with a particular focus on drama and death studies. She is the author of The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution and How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol.
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